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Review
. 2005 Jun;4(6):477-88.
doi: 10.1038/nrd1751.

Glycans in cancer and inflammation--potential for therapeutics and diagnostics

Danielle H Dube  1 , Carolyn R Bertozzi
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Review

Glycans in cancer and inflammation--potential for therapeutics and diagnostics

Danielle H Dube et al. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2005 Jun.

Abstract

Changes in glycosylation are often a hallmark of disease states. For example, cancer cells frequently display glycans at different levels or with fundamentally different structures than those observed on normal cells. This phenomenon was first described in the early 1970s, but the molecular details underlying such transformations were poorly understood. In the past decade advances in genomics, proteomics and mass spectrometry have enabled the association of specific glycan structures with disease states. In some cases, the functional significance of disease-associated changes in glycosylation has been revealed. This review highlights changes in glycosylation associated with cancer and chronic inflammation and new therapeutic and diagnostic strategies that are based on the underlying glycobiology.

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